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Commander Rudder (2nd Rangers) 10 years later – I Took My Son to Pointe Du Hoc and Omaha Beach

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6 Facts About Admiral Yamamoto, The Architect Of The Sneak Attack On Pearl Harbor

The man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was an unusual and contradictory figure. A man with peaceful international connections around…

To Make Life Easier For The People Of Occupied Crete, The Allies Kidnapped The Nazi Commander

The Special Operation Executive (SOE) in 1944, planned to conduct a daring mission in Crete. Their initial plan was to kidnap the German commander of…

I Survived A Firing Squad

Ian Harvey

Can you imagine what it must be like to be marched out to face a firing squad, say goodbye to your closest friend who is…

Nancy Wake: Special Ops Agent And The Gestapo’s Most Wanted

Holly Godbey

A British Special Ops agent during World War II, Nancy Wake was a wartime beauty, and not a person to be messed with. She was…

The First Man to Sink a Japanese Warship – The Battle Of Wake Island

Most people believe that although the Japanese succeeded in bombing Pearl Harbor during WWII, they never managed to occupy so much as an inch of American soil,…

Watch as Rare WWII Aircraft Share the Air: DeHavilland Mosquito and Lockheed P-38 Lightning

This video captures a unique moment in aviation history. Two of the world’s most rare aircraft dance through the sky together at one of the…

Occult And Esoteric Practices – Four Nazis With Dark Links To The Occult

There are few regimes and organizations in European history so universally condemned for their evil actions as the Nazis. Their leader, Adolf Hitler, led Germany…

Amazing Story Of The Company Cleaning Up After The WWII Shipbreaking Boom In Portland

During World War II, Portland was home to several shipyards that built warships for the war. When the war ended, those shipyards were no longer…

Dropping A Smaller Fighter From The Bomb Bay – The Out-Of-This-World XF-85 Goblin

Imagine WWII-era bombers serving as motherships for egg-shaped fighter jets dropped out of the bomb bay. Sound like a Si-Fi flick? Well, it’s not. Enter…

A “mentally unstable, violent fanatic” – The Horrific War Record of Oskar Dirlewanger

The word Nazi conjures up rather unpleasant associations, to say the least. When even the Nazis shuddered at the exploits of one of their own;…

Allied Attacks on Japanese “Hell Ships” Unintentionally Killed Thousands of POWs in WWII

In the American Revolutionary War, hell ships were used by the British to hold American prisoners of war. Those ships had abhorrent living conditions, and as…